01/08/2009
Fitial statement on designation (Saipan Tribune)
I welcome President Bush's historic announcement establishing the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument. On behalf of the people of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, I look forward to joining the President today for the official signing of the Monument Proclamation.
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01/07/2009
Michigan business news in brief: Daily Saipan route to end (Detroit Free Press)
Northwest Airlines' daily route from Osaka, Japan to Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands will be discontinued as of Feb. 28.
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01/07/2009
US commonwealth gets 1st congressional delegate (KPUA AM 670 Hilo)
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — Gregorio "Kilili" Sablan has been sworn in as the Northern Mariana Islands' first delegate to Congress. Sablan became a nonvoting member of the U.S. House yesterday, taking the oath of office in Washington.
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01/07/2009
US commonwealth gets 1st congressional delegate (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Gregorio "Kilili" Sablan has been sworn in as the Northern Mariana Islands' first delegate to Congress.
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01/07/2009
US commonwealth gets 1st congressional delegate (KHNL News 8 Honolulu)
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) - Gregorio "Kilili" Sablan has been sworn in as the Northern Mariana Islands' first delegate to Congress. Sablan became a nonvoting member of the U.S. House on Tuesday taking the oath of office in Washington.
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01/07/2009
Establishment of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (White House News)
Over approximately 480 nautical miles, the Mariana Archipelago encompasses the 14 islands of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Territory of Guam that sit atop the Mariana Ridge in an area known as the Mariana Volcanic Arc. The Mariana Volcanic Arc is part of a subduction system in which the Pacific Plate plunges beneath the Philippine Sea Plate ...
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01/06/2009
Bishop provides Bible for Kilili's swearing in (Saipan Tribune)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -Northern Mariana Islands Delegate-elect Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan will use a Bible brought from the Northern Marianas for his ceremonial swearing in at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 6 (Wednesday, Saipan time).
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01/05/2009
Bush to establish 3 marine monuments in Pacific (KHNL News 8 Honolulu)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President George W. Bush plans to designate three remote Pacific island chains as national monuments. They include the Mariana Trench along the Northern Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in American Samoa and seven islands in the central Pacific Ocean.
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01/05/2009
Bush to establish 3 marine monuments in Pacific (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
By By DINA CAPPIELLO -- President George W. Bush plans to designate three remote Pacific island chains as national monuments in what will be the largest marine conservation effort in history. The three areas - totaling some 195,280 square miles - are expected to include the Mariana Trench along the Northern Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in American Samoa and seven islands in the central Pacific ...
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01/04/2009
Paying for a cleaner island: Guam landfill to be larger, costlier than Saipan's (Pacific Daily News)
Nearly six years ago, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands built a new two-cell landfill in Marpi, Saipan, at a cost of $16 million.
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